Crimes | ForkLog - Part 102

ForkLog 21 10.05.2021

A Russian man received two bottles of water and an old fire extinguisher instead of a mining farm

Two suspects were detained in the Voronezh region on charges of theft of funds under the pretext of selling mining equipment, according to the local police.

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ForkLog 25 10.05.2021

Barnaul woman loses 371,000 rubles to cryptocurrency scammers

Barnaul authorities opened a criminal case for fraud in a particularly large amount following a local resident's complaint. She said that the scammers had misappropriated 371,000 rubles she had spent on buying cryptocurrency.

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ForkLog 24 09.05.2021

DeFi project Rari Capital lost about $11 million in a hack

An unknown actor siphoned assets worth about $11.3 million from the Rari Capital DeFi protocol.

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ForkLog 10 07.05.2021

New York attorney general seeks to halt Coinseed’s activities.

The New York attorney general's office filed a court motion to halt Coinseed's operations.

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ForkLog 14 06.05.2021

South Korean exchange suspected of $1.5 billion fraud

South Korea's police have begun investigations into the cryptocurrency exchange V Global, suspected of fraud, local media report.

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ForkLog 45 05.05.2021

Fraudsters posing as the WallStreetBets subreddit stole more than $2 million in cryptocurrency

The attackers, posing as the r/WallStreetBets community on Reddit, collected at least 3,451 BNB (more than $2.2 million at the time) and an undisclosed amount in Ethereum from those seeking WSB Finance tokens before listing on exchanges.

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ForkLog 10 03.05.2021

Russian loses 1.5 million rubles to cryptocurrency scam

A 31-year-old Stavropol resident handed over 1.5 million rubles to a cryptocurrency scammer.

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ForkLog 6 03.05.2021

MetaMask warned about a new phishing bot

The developers of the Ethereum wallet MetaMask warned about the emergence of a new phishing bot that steals users' mnemonic phrases.

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ForkLog 26 02.05.2021

Hacker drains $30 million in Spartan Protocol tokens from DeFi protocol

An attacker targeted the Binance Smart Chain (BSC)-based DeFi project Spartan Protocol and drained about $30 million from its liquidity pools.

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ForkLog 23 30.04.2021

Hotbit reports potential leak of user data

On April 29 at 23:00 Moscow time, attackers allegedly gained access to data of nearly 2 million users in an attack on the Hotbit exchange. Client funds are safe, the exchange said.

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ForkLog 26 30.04.2021

Experts urge tougher KYC/AML procedures to combat Bitcoin ransomware

A group of U.S. government and industry experts proposed strengthening compliance with KYC/AML procedures at an international level to reduce the number of ransomware attacks.

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ForkLog 29 30.04.2021

Trezor touts strong protection against government attempts to hack wallets

The developers of the Trezor hardware wallet highlighted its resilience against attempts to breach wallet security as US authorities plan to build a tool to bypass protections and access crypto assets.

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